Other plays for young people have included Alice Dreaming, which is one of the Australian Script Centre's anthology of large cast plays.
When approached by the BBC for a script for the BBC2 anthology series Theatre 625, Kneale, still upset over the sale of the film rights to The Quatermass Experiment turned them down.
By 1958, he had quit journalism and sold his first script to the half-hour anthology show "Alcoa-Goodyear Theater".
Broadcast on 18 June as part of The United States Steel Hour anthology series, the script was severely cut back in length.
As early as the 1950s, Chayefsky, a Bronx-born writer with a moralistic streak, had condemned television as "stupid" and "doomed," even while he contributed to dramatic anthology series, writing scripts like "Marty," the sad romance he adapted into the Oscar-winning film.
Requests for recommendations, announcements of new jobs, marriages, children, a photo, copy of a book or film script, story in a magazine or anthology, perhaps inscribed personally to me or sent directly from the publisher.
He also wrote scripts for the early science-fiction anthology "Tales of Tomorrow" and other shows.
Is the average devotee of casual electronic carnage likely to sit through nearly 400 pages of what amounts to a repetitive anthology of lifeless video scripts?
In truth, it's not a standup show at all, given that Lee is seated and reading from a script – not his own, but John Cage's anthology of short stories, epigrams and mini-essays which the composer recorded in 1959 while his regular collaborator, David Tudor, performed improvised music in another room.
Mr. Kon worked as an animator on Hiroyuki Kitakubo's 1991 feature, "Rojin Z" (written by Mr. Otomo), and contributed a script to Mr. Otomo's 1995 science-fiction anthology film, "Memories".
